Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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WE LOVE YOU, MAN

[...] Pip caught a glimpse of how the world must seem to Andreas: like one of those stadium crowds where every person had a colored board that they could flip in concert with everyone else and form messages. The message he was forever getting was that he was special and great. He walked into the st…

—p.253 Purity Moonglow Dairy (239) by Jonathan Franzen
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orgone

returning with younger women who helped him channel his orgone energy into the farm's rocky soil

referring to a man who followed Wilhelm Reich's theories

—p.250 Moonglow Dairy (239) by Jonathan Franzen
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a new and sadder light

Pip was seeing Annagret in a new and sadder light, as a middle-aged person inflating her importance to the Project, playing up her past importance to Andreas, remaining loyal after being discarded.

—p.246 Moonglow Dairy (239) by Jonathan Franzen
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the division of labor by gender

With the exception of a beautiful gay male Swede, Anders, who had some journalism chops and wrote the digests of the Project's leaks, the division of labor by gender was perfect. The boys went to a windowless and heavily secured building beyond the goat pasture and wrote code there, while the girls…

—p.243 Moonglow Dairy (239) by Jonathan Franzen
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